Word: iran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display at the Harvard School of Design in Robinson Hall is an exhibition of sketches and watercolors by Eliot F. Noyes '32. Most of the paintings were done in Iran at Persepolis--a group of palaces and terrace built by Darius and Xerxes about 500 B.C. The collection also includes subjects from Kashmir, India, Iraq, and Egypt. The paintings are watercolors of landscapes and mosques, and bazaar and native village scenes. They are free impressionistic pictures, boldly handled with lively colors...
...interest to students of archeology and ancient history are several paintings of reliefs from Xerxe's 100 column hall and other scenes on the Persepolis terrace done in the style of Joseph Lindon Smith. Some pencil sketches done in Iran and snow scenes in the Himalayas complete the collection...
...subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand ard Oil of California in 1931 on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, the Persian Government's cancellation of Anglo-Iran ian's great 500,000 sq. mi. concession in 1932. In making Seaboard's deal with Afghanistan he was assisted...
Lectures will assume a distinctly cosmopolitan tinge. At the head of the list appears a Mr. Fathalla K. Moston, of Nebraska University and an "old Iranian family", who can come prepared to speak on the development of Iran from a Medieval to a Modern State, or on Mohammed and the Koran...
While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...